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Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Post by andrepd »

tiberius_p wrote: post #62
andrepd wrote: post #5

Might be mild autism or some other mental condition, but I'm obsessive about timestamping everything. In my defense, it is useful when you want to refer back to it! Looks like a great little app

Timestamps are very underrated. There's so much useful information stored in them. It can help you remember what other things you did that day around that time, in what order some events happened, what were your initial plans and how they changed. These things can be so easily forgotten.

Exactly! It helps me reconstruct my train of thought and the chain of events, even after a long time has passed.

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Post by Arch-TK »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #31

I like the idea, but not the web-based implementation. Local first, and ideally an open source app that can work offline when I'm going distraction free. It feels like a vim plugin. It definitely feels like org-mode can do this. A few years back I had a little command line tool where I could log things quickly - it was like syslog for humans - but with #hashtags for projects or clients, and then a small tool that wou…

    $ ts | tee -a notes
Or just ts >>notes

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Post by adamgordonbell »

dleeftink wrote: post #63
adamgordonbell wrote: post #56

Let me ask a random note-taking question. I am a heavy user of Roam ( before that workflowy, before that org mode). I have daily checklists, but also some extensive notes on specific topics and some large projects I'm tracking. But I'm so heavily using LLMs now to help with researching topics. And I haven't found a good way to bring my LLM usage to my note taking. I'd love to be able to go over some things with an LL…

Two QOL uses I've found is concept indexing and excerpt formatting. Before/after engaging with new material, I'd generate a table of concepts and the pages these concepts are mentioned. Simple two column markdown table, nothing more. Second, for excerpt formatting I use a specific markdown format (add timestamp header, page number, and one/two keywords) to convert my highlights after running through a PDF. A more adv…

Very cool.

What note taking software are you using? Or just text files?

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Post by radlad »

mmh0000 wrote: post #57
dole wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use AutoHotkey's text replacement to drop different date formats. Typing "]ts" in an input replaces it with 03/21/2025 10:10:48 ::]ts::{ Send(FormatTime(,"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss")) Return } Beware the syntax differences between Autohotkey 1 and 2 when searching documentation

Please take this as your official notice that you use dates completely wrong and the world thinks you are a terrible person. If you would like to be a good person, please correct your horrific use of dates immediately Medium/Small/Big Big:Medium:Small - No! Bad American! Big-Medium-Small Big:Medium:Small—Yes! You're now ISO 8601 compliant! TL;DR: Send(FormatTime(,"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"))

ISO 8601 is a great standard when you need interoperability (e.g. between machines/servers, or between humans in different locales) or the ability to sort by timestamp.

For personal note taking, or notes to be shared locally, it makes sense to use your local locale's format.

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Post by teucris »

Lots of people are posting their custom solutions using org-mode, cli tools, vim, etc. There’s a wide world of people out there who don’t customize their environments, and therefore miss out on great improvements to their lives. Let’s make tools for them!

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Post by unstppbl »

gohberg wrote: post #2

In my work I often need to know when things happened, for scenarios like: interviews, incidents, protocol meetings, experiments, debugging, etc I noticed there was no simple way to achieve this with any note taking app, so I made one. * every line you write is automatically timestamped. * minimalist and distraction free - follows the simplicity of the built-in note apps. * cross platform - it's a webapp so no install…

Wow! I was thinking the same notes app like a month or two ago, even tried to create it! Can you open-source it? So we can contribute, and make it self hosted?

Re: Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped

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Post by whalesalad »

aae42 wrote: post #66
whalesalad wrote: post #60

As someone who works as an indie contractor and bills hourly, I have been wanting something like this for an eternity. Looks pretty cool and will take it for a spin.

if you really got into the habit of putting your train of thought in here i was thinking you could use it for billing hours/dividing up billable hours

that is exactly the tool I want. i just want to cache-out my brain 24x7 so that I can replay it later on and figure out what I was actually doing all day.
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